Still time to enter the Hall Caine Prize for Creative Writing

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The Department of Education and Children is once again holding its annual creative writing competition dedicated to the famous Manx novelist Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine. The closing date for this year's prize is Friday 22nd January 2016. Entries can be submitted through the post or via online submission.

This year, applicants are asked to produce a piece of creative writing based around the theme of echoes. Apart from poetry and plays all forms of creative writing will be accepted. Judges will be rewarding strong characterisation, good narrative flow and most of all, imaginative story-telling.

Entrants will be split into four categories based on education level; Primary, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5/IoM College. The word counts and prizes for each category are shown below.